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Jan 25, 2019

When I use Asul as font in certain languages, some letters are rendered in Cambria. Example:

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The letters ě ů ž (among others) are turned to Cambria. Is there a way to keep everything in Asul?
 
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Which program, which operating system? Jan 25, 2019

Daniel Frisano wrote:
When I use Asul as font in certain languages, some letters are rendered in Cambria.


Which program, which operating system?
 
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  Jan 25, 2019

Samuel Murray wrote:

Which program, which operating system?


MS Word 2016, Windows 10.

Same thing happens in OpenOffice, Ubuntu.
 
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Daniel Frisano wrote:
When I use Asul as font in certain languages, some letters are rendered in Cambria. The letters ě ů ž (among others) are turned to Cambria. Is there a way to keep everything in Asul?


I downloaded a font named Asul and opened it in a font editor to see what characters are available in it. The three characters you're hoping to see, are not present in Asul. This means that your text editor can't display them in Asul. Different text editors do different things when this happens (some show only a small square or a question mark instead of the unknown character), but most word processors and browsers fall back to a default font, which in your case appears to be Cambria.

Fontforge (freeware) shows that the three characters you're looking for, do not have glyphs in Asul:

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What you can do, is change the default font of your document to something more similar to Asul, so that the word processor falls back to that font.

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How important is it to you to use Asul? You could always try to identify which characters are missing, and then create them in a font editor using copy/paste. It's not difficult, but font editors that output working fonts tend to be expensive (in the adjusted font that I created using the freeware FontForge, only ů works).

[Edited at 2019-01-25 17:11 GMT]
 


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